Simulation /

Simulation, Sixth Edition continues to introduce aspiring and practicing actuaries, engineers, computer scientists and others to the practical aspects of constructing computerized simulation studies to analyze and interpret real phenomena. Readers will learn to apply the results of these analyses to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ross, Sheldon M.,author
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, [2023].
Edition:	Sixth edition.
Subjects:	Random variables. Probabilities. Computer simulation. Variables aléatoires. Probabilités. Simulation par ordinateur. probability. simulation. Computer simulation Probabilities Random variables Simulació per ordinador. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1 : Introduction
2 : Elements of probability
3 : Random numbers
4 : Generating discrete random variables
5 : Generating continuous random variables
6 : The multivariate normal distribution and copulas
7 : The discrete event simulation approach
8 : Statistical analysis of simulated data
9 : Variance reduction techniques
10 : Additional variance reduction techniques
11 : Statistical validation techniques
12 : Markov chain Monte Carlo methods